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Newly Updated – April 2024
Welcome to BooksForTopics’ recommended reading list for Year 6. If you’re looking for a list of the best books for children in Year 6, you’ve come to the right place. Our team of experts has selected a list of the 50 best books for children aged 10-11. We’ve tried to include something for all tastes – so look out for off-the-map kingdoms, thunder lizards, clocks that strike thirteen and the scariest school trip ever…
With a mix of classic and contemporary titles, our selection of recommended reads is designed to provide children with a diverse range of literature that will encourage them to become lifelong readers. Our list includes popular Y6 books such as Skandar and the Unicorn Thief, Murder Most Unladylike and Artemis Fowl as well as lesser-known treasures that are equally delightful, like Emmy Levels Up and Running Out of Time.
Our panel of reading experts, primary teachers and librarians helps us to read and review our books to select the best titles to recommend to each year group. Along with evaluating the current popularity of books, we carefully assess each title on the merit of its age-appropriateness, quality of writing and illustrations, and ability to stimulate imagination, critical thinking and creativity.
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The Treehouse books form an enormously popular children’s book series by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton. The series features a fun-loving pair of friends who live in an imaginative treehouse with lots of fun extra rooms. As the series progresses, the treehouse expands and before long contains everything from a movie theatre, dinosaur petting zoo, marshmallow-toasting volcano and a ninja snail academy. Highly illustrated with comic-style line drawings, treehouse diagrams and speech bubbles, these books are popular with children aged 7 to 10. The high image-to-text ratio coupled with its wacky sense of humour have helped the series to earn its reputation for hooking children into reading.
It’s no surprise that many teachers and parents whose children are hooked ask us for what to read next after the Treehouse books. We’ve put together a list of ten books like the 13 Storey Treehouse. Readers who love getting silly with the absurd humour of the Treehouse stories could also try Dave Pigeon or Bunny vs Monkey. For children looking for more stories featuring plenty of comic-style line illustrations and not too much writing on each page, try Max and the Midknights or Murray and Bun. If you like laugh-out-loud action to entertain you while you read, try A Monster Ate My Packed Lunch and Fairy vs Wizard, or you might like to try the graphic novels Stitch Head or Peng and Spanners.
Browse the full list below of books for children looking for what to read next after the Treehouse Series…
If you like Daisy by Kes Gray, try these…The Daisy and the Trouble With… books by Kes Gray are a hit with younger readers getting to grips with the independent reading of chapter books. Children enjoy the funny, illustrated adventures recounting the ups and downs of Daisy’s life as she gives her take on visits to the zoo, going on holiday, having a birthday or taking part in sports day. Mishaps seem to follow Daisy wherever she goes and she finds herself in plenty of sticky situations to sort out. Kes Gray’s line illustrations add a familiar warmth and humour to these popular chapter books.
We’ve put together a list of ten similar books for fans of the Daisy books. Readers who love the humour of well-meaning mischief and misadventure might enjoy the madcap babysitter in Marge in Charge or the Naughtiest Unicorn series. If you are looking for another highly collectable series after Daisy, try Anisha Accidental Detective or The Naughtiest Girl. For those looking for a brand new adventure coupled with plenty of fun illustrations alongside the story, try Rainbow Grey or Sophy Henn’s super-cool Pizazz series. Finally, for another story with a feisty female lead at its centre, try The Princess Rules or Leonora Bolt.
Browse the full list below of books for children looking for what to read next after Daisy…
The Goosebumps books by R. L. Stine first rose to popularity in the 1990s. In recent years, the comedy-horror genre has grown in traction again in the Middle Grade (ages 8-12) book market and a new run of Goosebumps books has been printed, combining popular favourites from the original series with some newly written stories. The books are standalone adventures featuring children in spooky situations – from creepy encounters with puppets that come alive to garden gnomes that want to take over. The elements of horror in the books are tinged with an edge of comedy, usually with what starts as mildly scary situations escalating into ridiculously unrealistic outcomes.
We’ve compiled a list of ten similar books for fans of the Goosebumps books. Readers who love stories of children coming up against fantastical beasts and monsters might enjoy The Beast and Bethany or The Maker of Monsters. Children looking for more chilling horror stories should try Jennifer Killick’s hugely popular Crater Lake or The Haunting of Aveline Jones. For edge-of-your-seat fantasy thrillers that require readers to suspend their disbelief, try The Day No One Woke Up or Christopher Edge’s sci-fi themed The Black Hole Cinema Club.
Browse the full list below of books for children looking for more books like Goosebumps…
If you like Artemis Fowl, try these…The Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer is loved by fans of action and fantasy. Filled with high-octane supernatural creatures (the author describes the premise as “Die Hard with Fairies”), the books follow the adventures of loveable young criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl, who encounters fairy kidnappings, gangs of goblins and power-hungry pixies in his cunning underworld escapades.
We’ve compiled a list of ten similar books for fans of the Artemis Fowl books. Readers who love a twisted, action-filled take on the world of supernatural beings like elves and unicorns might enjoy Skandar and the Unicorn Thief or the Shadows of Winterspell. If you are looking for more high-octane adventure stories like Artemis Fowl, you might like to try Running Out of Time or the highly popular Percy Jackson series. For more stories of criminal masterminds, try the Crookhaven series or Skulduggery Pleasant. If you want to discover quests and battles in different cultural settings, visit Ancient China with the Dragon Mountain books or explore West African mythology with Cameron Battle and the Hidden Kingdoms.
Browse the full list below of books for children looking for more books like Artemis Fowl…
If you like Ultimate Football Heroes, try these…The Ultimate Football Heroes books score big with football-loving children in Key Stage 2. With over 50 books in the collections, these biographies tell the life story of a famous footballer, covering the journey from each player’s earliest childhood moments to their latest successes on the pitch and beyond.
We’ve compiled a list of ten similar books for fans of Ultimate Football Heroes. Readers who enjoy discovering all the facts about real footballers might like Football School Star Players or Three Lionesses. If you want to get stuck into some gripping football-themed fiction, try Tom Palmer’s Football Academy series or I Am Lenny Brown. For interesting historical stories of footballers from the past, we recommend A Different Kind of Freedom or Respect: The Walter Tull Story. Children looking for a fun adventure series from a well-known football hero might like to try Marcus Rashford’s Breakfast Club Adventures. For more ideas, you can also check out our list of children’s books about football.
Browse the full list below of books for children looking for what to read next after Ultimate Football Heroes…
From the internationally bestselling author of Wonderscape and The Uncommoners, comes a spectacular new fantasy series for 9+ set in a world of magical creatures, ancient meteorites and secret organizations, irresistible to fans of Pokémon, Skandar and the Unicorn Thief and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
FEEL THE MAGIC. CONJURE THE IMPOSSIBLE.
When her dad is kidnapped by a woman with a giant hamstoceros, Bitsy and best friend Kosh are swept into a secret world of ancient meteorites and strange beasts called magicores, each conjured using a different emotion. Using a powerful bestiary called Magicalia, the friends must quickly become conjurors themselves, before following a trail of clues that will take them from London to India to Paris, in a race to rescue Bitsy’s dad from a mysterious villain…
Forgotten your homework and need to WING it?
Wish you could talk your way out of DETENTION?
Want to SQUASH your bullies and RISE to the top?
Join Kamal as he attempts to go from PUKE BOY to POPULAR!
Kamal is better than anyone else in his school at fading into the background. When you’re a refugee and you’ve started a new school three times in as many years, you learn to keep your head down.
But, after a major puke incident in front of the whole school, being invisible is no longer an option. And when Kamal finds a mysterious CHEAT BOOK in the library that promises to help him gain popularity, he sees a chance to finally make his mark . . .
This hilarious guide to being ‘too cool for school’ (or just cool enough) from brilliant author-illustrator RAMZEE. Perfect for 8+ readers of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Loki, with black-and-white illustrations throughout!
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